June 16, 2004, was the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. To celebrate the occasion, thousands took to the streets in Dublin, following in the ...
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June 16, 2004, was the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. To celebrate the occasion, thousands took to the streets in Dublin, following in the footsteps of protagonist Leopold Bloom. The event also was marked by the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, where world-renowned scholars discussed Joyce's seminal work. This volume contains readings of Ulysses presented at the conference. The contributors to this volume urge a close engagement with the novel. They offer readings that focus variously on the materialist, historical, and political dimensions of Ulysses. The diversity of topics covered include nineteenth-century psychology, military history, Catholic theology, the influence of early film and music hall songs on Joyce, the post-Ulysses evolution of the one-day novel, and the challenge of discussing such a complex work amongst the sea of extant criticism.Less

Bloomsday 100 : Essays on Ulysses

Published in print: 2009-10-01

June 16, 2004, was the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day that James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place. To celebrate the occasion, thousands took to the streets in Dublin, following in the footsteps of protagonist Leopold Bloom. The event also was marked by the Bloomsday 100 Symposium, where world-renowned scholars discussed Joyce's seminal work. This volume contains readings of Ulysses presented at the conference. The contributors to this volume urge a close engagement with the novel. They offer readings that focus variously on the materialist, historical, and political dimensions of Ulysses. The diversity of topics covered include nineteenth-century psychology, military history, Catholic theology, the influence of early film and music hall songs on Joyce, the post-Ulysses evolution of the one-day novel, and the challenge of discussing such a complex work amongst the sea of extant criticism.

This chapter exemplifies the anti-Semitic Limerick incidents as shown through the character of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. The events which befall Leopold Bloom, in Joyce's Ulysses represent everyman ...
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This chapter exemplifies the anti-Semitic Limerick incidents as shown through the character of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. The events which befall Leopold Bloom, in Joyce's Ulysses represent everyman and at times he bears distinguishable characteristics of Christ. By the time of Bloomsday, there were fewer than four thousand Jews in Ireland, enough apparently to antagonize some of the native Irish population into open violence. This vitriolic outburst of anti-Semitism, and its more philosophical aftermath, became big news on the front pages of leading newspapers and magazines in Dublin during the middle months of 1904. Joyce left Ireland for good several weeks after the public airing of the racial discrimination issue, and carried with him a clear mental and emotional picture of the Dublin he left behind him. Joyce selected a Jew as his central character to establish a frame of reference against which the reader might place the attitudes of Jews and non-Jews toward each other in the Ireland of that period.Less

The Anti-Semitic Limerick Incidents and Joyce's “Bloomsday”

Marvin Magalaner

Published in print: 2011-03-01

This chapter exemplifies the anti-Semitic Limerick incidents as shown through the character of Leopold Bloom in Ulysses. The events which befall Leopold Bloom, in Joyce's Ulysses represent everyman and at times he bears distinguishable characteristics of Christ. By the time of Bloomsday, there were fewer than four thousand Jews in Ireland, enough apparently to antagonize some of the native Irish population into open violence. This vitriolic outburst of anti-Semitism, and its more philosophical aftermath, became big news on the front pages of leading newspapers and magazines in Dublin during the middle months of 1904. Joyce left Ireland for good several weeks after the public airing of the racial discrimination issue, and carried with him a clear mental and emotional picture of the Dublin he left behind him. Joyce selected a Jew as his central character to establish a frame of reference against which the reader might place the attitudes of Jews and non-Jews toward each other in the Ireland of that period.

Bloomsday, celebrated every 16th of June, has long established itself as the hallowed festival of lovers of James Joyce. It is enjoyed as much because of its populist raffishness and carnivalesque ...
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Bloomsday, celebrated every 16th of June, has long established itself as the hallowed festival of lovers of James Joyce. It is enjoyed as much because of its populist raffishness and carnivalesque dimensions as for its lofty literary pretensions. Bloomsday had become a hallmark of the value of Ulysses, while simultaneously functioning as a public relations exercise that served to augment the novel's reputation. Through such admixtures of volition, marketing strategy, and happenstance, Bloomsday now functions as a memorial to Joyce's radical literary experiment. Even though June 16, 1904 is irrevocably fixed as the temporal setting for Ulysses, the concept of Bloomsday has proven to be remarkably pliant, portable, and adaptable. It has now become a global occasion as readings, performances, parties, and theatrical enactments are held in numerous urban centers around the world. The marketability of Bloomsday as well as of aspects of Irishness means that Dublin is less a point of convergence for June 16 than a reconfigurable domain that can locate itself anywhere through the potent endorsement of Joyce's language, persona, and prestige.Less

Introduction

Anne Fogarty

Published in print: 2009-10-01

Bloomsday, celebrated every 16th of June, has long established itself as the hallowed festival of lovers of James Joyce. It is enjoyed as much because of its populist raffishness and carnivalesque dimensions as for its lofty literary pretensions. Bloomsday had become a hallmark of the value of Ulysses, while simultaneously functioning as a public relations exercise that served to augment the novel's reputation. Through such admixtures of volition, marketing strategy, and happenstance, Bloomsday now functions as a memorial to Joyce's radical literary experiment. Even though June 16, 1904 is irrevocably fixed as the temporal setting for Ulysses, the concept of Bloomsday has proven to be remarkably pliant, portable, and adaptable. It has now become a global occasion as readings, performances, parties, and theatrical enactments are held in numerous urban centers around the world. The marketability of Bloomsday as well as of aspects of Irishness means that Dublin is less a point of convergence for June 16 than a reconfigurable domain that can locate itself anywhere through the potent endorsement of Joyce's language, persona, and prestige.